Agriculture can evolve independently only where intensive hunter-gatherer plant use has
previously evolved, and both developments are limited by two major evolutionary constraints: …

… Situated north of the Tibetan Plateau, northwestern China presently has a dry climate …
Here, we discuss the possible climatic patterns that could have prevailed in northwestern China …

The petrological, geochemical, and mineralogical compositions of the coal-hosted Jurassic
uranium ore deposit in the Yili Basin of Xinjiang province, northwestern China, were …

The northwestern China is a typical dry-land region of Inner Asia, where significant climate
change has been observed over the past several decades. How the regional vegetation, …

We employed culture-dependent and -independent techniques to study microbial diversity in
Lake Chaka, a unique hypersaline lake (32.5% salinity) in northwest China. It is situated at …

In view of the industrialisation of northwestern China, widespread research was undertaken
on the properties of loess in this area. This paper deals with a part of these investigations. A …

The history of climatic changes during the interval 8500–3000cal. yr BP has been reconstructed
from stratigraphical and chronological studies and the results of Total Organic Carbon (…

In the arid region of northwestern China (ARNC), water resources are the most critical factor
restricting socioeconomic development and influencing the stability of the area’s ecological …

… Mobile dunes, which are extensively distributed in northwestern China, are not a significant
… show that the dust in the urban region of northwestern China, to a large extent, comes from …

… agricultural development in northwestern China, where the … on the farm production in
northwestern China. By applying the … in this arid region of northwestern China, and are anticipated …